Here is a list of Val McDermid’s Inspector Karen Pirie Books Ranked, According to Goodreads.
#1 – Still Life (4.21)
#2- Broken Ground (4.17)
#3 – Out of Bounds (4.15)
#4 – A Darker Domain (3.99)
#5 – The Distant Echo (3.98)
From the blurb:
On a freezing morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in a cemetery. The only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood.
Twenty-five years later the police mount a cold-case review of Rosie’s unsolved murder, and the four are still suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice….